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When we sin we are rejecting God, authority, and ability to rule. For us to live for God we have to understand and trust his authority and ability to rule. The authority and power of God are best shown by the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus Christ.

Acts 1:4 – 11 Verse 3 of chapter 1 ends with the words “The Kingdom of God.” Given what comes next, that is very appropriate. Jesus tells his Apostles to wait for the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. They then prove that they need to follow his advice by their next question. “Will you at this time restore the…

Revelation 5:1-14 Stephen Caswell © 2004 Memorial To A Crushed Lamb On a little church in Germany stands a stone lamb which has an interesting history: When some workmen were building the roof, one workman fell to the ground. His companions hastened down expecting to see him killed. But he was unhurt.…

Sovereignty 13. The year is drawing to a close, so I thought I ought to draw to a close this extended series that I have been doing on the sovereignty of God. [P] I actually think that I could continue it until the LORD returns. I stated right at the beginning that viewing sovereignty is like looking…

Sovereignty of God. At the tender age of six, not having long been in this country, we went down south. Dad was speaking at a Vic Hudson camp at Gunn’s Bush. After the camp, seeing we hadn’t seen much of New Zealand yet, we did a little bit of a tour around and stayed at Duntroon, right next the mighty…

Haggai 6. Intro: The prophet Haggai [P] delivered five messages from יְהוָה to the remnant of the Jews who had returned from exile in Babylonia. Their country was in ruins and their job was to rebuild, and in particular, to rebuild the temple of יְהוָה that had been torn down by the Babylonian invaders.…

Learning to Lead Ezekiel 34:1-5 The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat…

Introduction To under take this project required much more study than I anticipated. The language of scripture contained 200 different semantic contexts applicable to the subject. Exercising authority involves at least three major language domains, they are: 1. Help, care for; 2. Guide, discipline, follow;…